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Case Study: Ambulatory Strategy with a Focus on Responding to a Larger Competitor Moving Into the Market
Background Our client was an independent, 250+ bed hospital, located 20 minutes from a large metropolitan area in the Midwest. The hospital was experiencing intense pressure from three tertiary competitors […]
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Case Study: Alignment Strategy for a Medical Community with Both Employed and Independent Physicians
Background In 2009, our hospital client — a 175-bed hospital in the Southeast — had a largely independent physician base and a handful of employed physicians. There was no alignment […]
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Case Study: Primary Care Alignment in a Community Hospital Setting
Background Our client, a two-hospital system in the Southeast region, lacked a consistent physician alignment strategy, particularly for primary care. As a result: Referrals from on-staff physicians were lost to […]
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Case Study: Hospital Strategic Planning with a Focus on Profitable Growth
Background Our client, a community hospital that is part of a loosely affiliated, five-plus hospital system in the Northeast, was struggling with financial challenges that were driving the organization’s operating […]
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Use These Five Strategies to Align with Independent Physicians
To many hospital CEOs, there are days when it seems as though every physician on the medical staff wants to be employed. In reality, that’s not true — quite a number of physicians […]
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Two Steps to Primary Care Alignment in a Consolidating Market
In states such as Indiana, Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania, where large systems are aggressively pursuing physician and hospital acquisitions, independent hospitals and small health systems must have a strategy […]
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Improving Hospital-Based Physician Contracts
Due to the nature of services hospital-based physicians provide, no group is more logical or simple to truly “align” with. Their quality is your quality. Their mistakes are your mistakes. […]
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Webinar: Improve Quality and Enhance Efficiency with Co-Management Agreements
Healthcare reform’s focus on patient outcomes is piquing renewed interest in co-management agreements. Many hospitals have relied on co-management to build successful service lines, because they enhance clinical expertise, give […]
